So last night coming back from church, I took the highway when I noticed the needle to the gas gauge was on empty. There are no gas stations in that area and still had like 35 minutes left to go.

I prayed for the best and as soon as I made to the gas station by my house, the car just shut off. I know I should've look at the gas gauge but I was having fun.

I was wandering, what's the farthest anyone has gotten running on empty?

 

i'm on empty right now, so far i've been 12mi.

 

If I remember correctly your gas light come on with a two gallon reserve.
So technically you have two gallons at 25-30 mpg. But I am not brave enuf to
test this. God knows what else may be in my tank!

 

Its not a good idea to let your tank get low. Your better off to try to remeber to fill up at least by 1/4 tank.

 

yeah my GF will let the civic go till the lights been on for awhile and you can hear the civic actually begging to be filled up... but like omen said, i'm not brave enuf

 

I'm usually good with filling it up at half tank but I didn't realized it was on empty on Sunday. I had a friend of mine, whose grandfather would drive on empty for like two weeks. He was a funny old man and everytime my friend would tell him to fill up, he would say "don't worry about it, i got two more miles on it."

He was always scared they'd get stuck without gas. Funny, he never got stuck. His grandfather had the car for like 20 years.